Stoltenberg: "Anything like what happened in Crimea and Ukraine would, of course, trigger a response from the whole alliance, because NATO is there to defend and protect all allies against any threat."

Ivanna Klympush: Our task while preparing ANP-2019 with NATO is to develop a strat document, laying out preparatory work to be ready to apply for NATO membership. It should fully be integrated in the Governmental action plan and have a proper financing.

Ivanna Klympush: Stressed at the NATO-UA Parliam Council today in Odesa: The world should realize - the war isn't only in Donbas or in illegally annexed Crimea. There is a war against Ukraine as a whole, against Europe and against the free world. Consolidated united response is vital.

Despite evidence that Russia was behind attack on a Hungarian cultural center in Western Ukraine, Hungary's foreign minister on TV yesterday blamed the authorities in Kyiv, saying Ukraine's EU and NATO ambitions can't be taken seriously

[email protected]_SMM DCM Aleska Simkic today crossed Stanytsia Luhanska Bridge, seeing how 6,000 people a day cross an unsafe slippery ramp as sides refuse to open new entry-exit checkpoints or repair the broken bridge.